It's an early October morning and temperatures are just above freezing when Christoph Oberle and his assistants haul a big dragnet full of carp across a pond to the shore in Kosbach, near the southern German city of Erlangen.
Turkey's Kurdish rebels on Tuesday claimed responsibility for an attack that killed a local ruling party official, a website close to the militants said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has indefinitely postponed a trip to France after Paris had revised its program for the visit and said it would talk about nothing else but the Syrian crisis.
A German nationalist party has ended a dispute that split its parliamentary group in a state legislature and exposed divisions in its national leadership.
A British lawmaker has compared Syrian and Russian airstrikes on Aleppo to the notorious bombing of civilians in Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
Polish police are searching for the perpetrators of a weekend attack against a Turkish student, the latest incident in a rising number of xenophobic attacks in the country.
Romania's foreign ministry says armed men have abducted a Romanian engineer in southern Nigeria, in what appears to be the latest hostage-for-ransom incident.
Polish police are searching for the perpetrators of a weekend attack against a Turkish student, the latest incident in a rising number of xenophobic attacks in the country.
Ireland has unveiled a 2017 budget that builds on the country's rapid recovery from an international bailout with 1.3 billion euros ($1.45 billion) of spending increases and tax cuts.
Police in northern Greece say they have arrested two Greek women suspected of trying to smuggle a group of Syrian refugees over the rugged border with Albania.
Russia's state-owned VTB Bank is making plans to move a major investment banking hub out of London due to Britain's decision to leave the European Union.
Two Iraqi women who once were captives of Islamic State, a leader of the Crimean Tatars and a former Turkish newspaper editor have been named finalists for the European Union's Sakharov human rights prize.